Word: nipponization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic U.S. market could not furnish the solution. The financial viability of the Tristar program ultimately depended upon Lockheed's success in selling the plan abroad. Furthermore, the success of the overseas sales effort increasingly appeared to depend upon Japan. For if the major Japanese international carrier, All Nippon Airlines, could be persuaded to purchase the Tristar, it would not only be a major sale--21 planes were sold in all for nearly $400 million--but it would be a prestige sale, placing the Tristar on a par with Boeing's 747 and McDonnell-Douglas's DC 10. As seen...
What precisely did Mr. Kotchian do when he set up his command post in the Okura Hotel? In a remarkable five-part interview in the Asahai Evening News, he outlined the Lockheed sales campaign in detail. The crux of the problem for Lockheed was to persuade All Nippon Airlines to postpone a decision to buy the McDonnell-Douglas DC 10 and then arrange for All Nippon to buy the Lockheed Tristar, instead. In order to accomplish this objective, Kotchian undertook to penetrate the very top level of Japanese political decision making. He enlisted the aid of Lockheed's secret agent...
...toll was the highest in aviation history for a two-plane crash, exceeding the casualty list of 162 five years ago at Morioka, Japan, when a Japanese fighter with a student pilot at the controls plowed into an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727. Even so, in an era of constantly expanding aircraft capacity, the Yugoslav accident was not the worst crash on record. That doubtful honor still belongs to a Turkish Airlines DC-10 jumbo that crashed near Paris two years ago, killing all 345 people aboard...
...enjoyed miraculously long immunity from the dreaded plague that used to sweep Europe. It was not until June 27, 1899, that the S.S. Nippon Maru reached San Francisco, carrying, among other things, eleven Japanese stowaways. Two were found drowned, and infected by the plague. Early in 1900 a Chinese immigrant, found dead, was also shown to have had plague. The resulting political furor was reminiscent of the Middle Ages, with the Governor of California insisting that there was no problem and federal authorities demanding stern measures for quarantine, isolation, disinfection and rat extermination. It took almost ten years of squabbling...
Serious Offense. Eventually, the prosecutors hope to link these payments to government-influenced decisions to buy Lockheed planes. One case involves a 1972 decision by All Nippon Airways to buy Lockheed passenger jets, despite having taken a prior option to purchase McDonnell-Douglas aircraft. In a second case, the Japanese reversed plans to build their own antisubmarine patrol planes, and instead decided to study the Lockheed P-3C Orion. If the cash pocketed by Tanaka can be tied to these decisions, Tanaka will almost surely be charged with bribery, a serious offense opening him to a maximum prison sentence...